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Low-Cost Measurement for a Secondary Mode S Radar Transmitter Low-Cost Measurement for a Secondary Mode S Radar Transmitter Angel Parra-Cerrada, Vicente Gonzalez-Posadas, Jose Luis Jimenez-Martin, Alvaro Blanco-del-Campo, Wilmar Hernandez, Senior Member, IEEE, and Carlos Calderon-Cordova Abstract—A low-cost, multiple-purpose, and high-precision MSSR [3]. However, these papers do not deal with the up-link timing test setup for the measurements of secondary signal of the MSSR taking into consideration the modulation Mode S radar transmission signal was proposed. The goal performances of this signal. This paper 34 shows a detailed was to fully guarantee compliance of the proposed transmitter under test with the really hard International Civil Aircraft analysis of the transmitted signal by an MSSR, allowing Organization requirements using traditional measurement us to verify compliance with International Standards and equipment, which was difficult or even impossible to ensure Recommended Practices [4]. This verification is made by using up to now. The low-cost structure proposed in this paper a exible user-controlled method that is independent of any allows the user to perform measurements independently of manufacturer of specific commercial test equipment, which the measurements performed by the pieces of test equipment shelled by the manufacturer of radar, which is a very important in many cases is the same as the manufacturer of the radar. aspect since the independence of the verifications is a mandatory This method guarantees that problems cannot be undetected requirement established by the safety standards of civil aviation. because of the same implementation of some hardware is used The proposed setup has been used to verify several transmitters in transmitter and test equipment. with some defects that are not detected by monopulse secondary surveillance radar specific pieces of test equipment that are Nowadays, the number of MSSR is increasing very sig­ focused on more high-level functionalities. It also is valid and it nificantly and a further increase is expected in the coming has been used, as a general-purpose setup, for testing other radio years [5]. In addition, due to the fact that the MSSR is a navigation aids. critical point in aviation safety, it is of utmost importance to Index Terms—Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) equipment, have diagnostic capabilities of the MSSR independently of differential phase shift keying, envelope and phase measure­ the manufacturer of the radar [6] and as a complement to the ments, global positioning system disciplined oscillator (GPSDO), built-in test equipment of the radar, having a low-cost system Mode S radar, monopulse secondary surveillance radar (MSSR), that uses light and easily transportable equipment that allows radar measurements, transmitter measurements. checking in situ in remote areas in an affordable manner. I. INTRODUCTION During the fifties, the United States of America required all aircraft entering its airspace to be identified by means of sec­ N THIS paper a low-cost and high-precision method ondary surveillance radar (SSR), compatible with the military to measure and analyze the most important parameters I identification friend or foe (IFF) system IFF Mark X selective of the transmitter of a monopulse secondary surveillance identification feature system [7]. Due to its widespread use, radar (MSSR) is presented. In the scientific literature, there it was established as a reliable radar sensor for air traffic are several papers that analyze the performance of monopulse control (ATC), although with some technical limitations, such receivers [1], MSSR antennas [2], and spurious emissions of an as garble, fruit, track wander, and multipath propagation. For this reason, some improvements were made, for example, monopulse in azimuth (eliminating track wander) [8], greater This work was supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of vertical aperture antennas (reducing multipath cancelation and science ana Education under Project TEC2006-13248-C04-04/TCM, Project Consolider CSD2008-0068, and Project TEC2009-14525-C02-01, in part by silence cone) [9], and sidelobe suppression system improve­ the National Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Inno­ ment. All these improvements allowed this ATC system to vation of Ecuador through PROMETEO Project, and in part by the Technical become the most world-wide used one [10]. Nevertheless, once University of Loja, Loja, Ecuador. The Associate Editor coordinating the review process was Dr. Matteo Pastorino. these improvements were achieved, more improvements in A. Parra-Cerrada, V. Gonzalez-Posadas, and J. L. Jimenez-Martin are SSR systems were required, such as selective modes of inter­ with the Department of Teoria de la Serial y Comunicaciones, Universidad rogation and getting a better data link between radar ground Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid 28040, Spain (e-mail: [email protected]; station and aircraft [11]. These improvements were achieved [email protected]; [email protected]). A. Blanco-del-Campo is with the Microwave Sensing, Signals and by modulating not only amplitude of the transmitted uplink Systems Group, Department of Microelectronics, Delft University of signal but also its phase. This way, Mode S radar was on track. Technology, Delft 2628CC, The Netherlands (e-mail: a.blancodelcamp® tudelft.nl). Furthermore, as it was impossible to renew at once all the W. Hernandez and C. Calderon-Cordova are with the Department systems that were already in use worldwide, the new system of Computer Science and Electronics, Universidad Tecnica Particular had to be capable of responding and transmitting to older de Loja, Loja 11432, Ecuador (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]. ec). versions of IFF, and this is the reason why Mode S radars transmitted signals and systems themselves became more and more complicated, fulfilling hard requirements in amplitude, RF GENERATOR phase, and time synchronization as well. It is a well-known 10 MHz fact that whatever system is used to control, manufacture, (^) 970 MHz REFECENCE or develop anything in which human lives can be involved and it has to get through a very strict certification process. Therefore, amplitude, phase, frequency, and timing conditions MODES OSCILLOSCOPE TX ^ of Mode S radars must be measured and certified [12], involving specific and quite expensive equipment as well as GPIB/ETH high technical staff to measure them. The manufacturer is usually the responsible of the certification process, but each MATLAB piece of equipment must be verified periodically by the user as it is required by each national ATC normative.This is normally Fig. 1. Schematic of the proposed test setup. requires once a year. This paper emphasizes this key point and shows a novel method of Mode S radar ground transmitter mea­ surements using only the low-cost commercial-off-the-shelf stable reference signal has to be used for accurate phase and equipment. The proposed method provides a complete timing measurements. verification of the transmitter using a typical acquisition To meet the first condition, this paper presents the scheme. So, this verification is performed without any test setup shown in Fig. 1, which uses the digital dependence with the radar manufacturer. In short, for tim­ oscilloscope TDS3034C as a data acquisition system. ing requirements, a global positioning system (GPS) dis­ Its sampling rate (2.5 G/s) is high enough to manage the ciplined oscillator (GPSDO) is used [13], and for sam­ required bandwidth and to store the needed information for a pling and storing the signal for proper automatic processing, simple and unique interrogation. a high-frequency sampling oscilloscope is used [14]. To meet the second condition, a GPSDO is used. This In addition, a computer is used to get the data from the is shown in Fig. 2 and its performance is explained oscilloscope for analysis and signal processing. The processing in Section II-B. of the signal on a computer using MATLAB allows the The test setup shown in Fig. 1 uses an intermediate specific and particular parameter monitoring that each user frequency (IF) of 60 MHz. This frequency is a typical IF for desires independent of the interpretation that the manufacturer SSR systems and is low enough to be used in many medium- of the transmitter made (usually, it is the same interpre­ range digital oscilloscopes. Being a typical frequency makes tation that the manufacturer implements on the COST test it easy to purchase filters, attenuators, mixers, and so on at equipment). low prices. A prototype of the measurement system was implemented Using a digital oscilloscope along with a computer to and it was used to carry out the measurements and the analysis control it and process the signal becomes a low-cost and of some signals of two defective transmitters. high-performance signal analysis system, good enough for The organization of this paper is as follows. The test setup is our purposes. Therefore, the proposed test setup for the explained in Section II. The signal acquisition and processing Mode S radar transmission measurements consists of the is explained in Section III. Section IV is aimed at showing following: 1) attenuator; 2) passive mixer; 3) low-pass filter; the experimental results. Finally, the main conclusions of this 4) 10-MHz GPS oscillator reference; 5) signal generator; paper are summarized in Section V. 6) digital oscilloscope; 7) desktop computer; and 8) MATLAB. At this point, it is important to say that direct conversion of II. TEST SETUP the IF signal is being used because of its inherent advantages Usually, when trying to measure a waveform that is difficult compared with the use of a traditional I/Q (or I/Q and video) to measure, the required and, therefore, used equipment is demodulator used in most transponders. Some of the main specifically designed for that purpose, and very often, the advantages are that amplitude to I/Q time delay, amplitude state of the art technology is involved in it. For this reason, mismatch between I/Q branches, and I/Q phase unbalance equipment designed for this purpose is hard to find and errors are avoided.
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